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Félix Klein (12 July 1862 in

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) was a French priest, theologian and author who taught at the

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. In the United States, he is known as the author of the introduction of Comtesse de Ravilliax's French translation of Walter Elliott's ''Life of Father Hecker'' (1896), which started the Americanism controversy. Klein was made a Knight of the

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in 1952. Many of Klein's personal papers are kept in the

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Archives.Félix Klein profile
nd.edu; accessed 5 July 2017.

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*Guy Thuillier, "Un Nivernais professeur à l’Institut catholique : l’abbé Félix Klein (1862-1953)", Mémoires de la Société académique du Nivernais, t. 73, 1993, p. 65- 75. 19th-century French Roman Catholic priests 20th-century French Catholic theologians Catholic Church in the United States Recipients of the Legion of Honour 1862 births 1953 deaths French male writers {{France-RC-clergy-stub